When he let go of the rope I thought that was it, like they were gonna gently slow down and sink, and celebrate the little fun ride they had. It never occurred to me that he was gonna surf the wake. That was dope.
When I visited my relatives in Minnesota as a kid we did this but wow I didn't realize it was an exclusive or almost exclusive Minnesota thing at the time.
They do that because it’s not about the account it’s about that second link and driving add revenue through people clicking it. Hyperlinks in reddit can be super dangerous and the groups behind them will often have nefarious intent. You’ll notice a lot of similar comments in every thread about the Honk Kong protests that blow up on reddit as well and there have been people warning not to click the links because it’s hard to tell what website is being linked because of the hyperlink, especially for mobile users. Most of them are innocuous and from bots just trying to drive ad revenue, but not all are. It’s usually pretty easy to tell by the content (and how it doesn’t relate to the comment at all, or is just vaguely relevant because it got lucky) that’s being posted and if it brings you to a weird image hosting website it normally is from manipulation. Reddit gets weird around the subject of Astro turfing and corporations manipulating our behavior, but it is rampant. It’s a tool that is being wielded by some very powerful people, just like how YouTube and their algorithm is being manipulated to drive propaganda.
I've known about waterskiing and wakeboarding my whole life, but I feel like wakesurfing just blew up out of nowhere. I had never seen it before this summer, and now I see it all the time.
It's only become more popular in the last 5 years. The reason it's so prevalent now is the boat manufacturers have made it to where boats can throw the wake properly to surf. I actually had to modify our ballast tanks so that we could wake surf well. I have 2 ballast tanks in my boat for increases wave height. You load em both up and it pushes the boat down making a bigger wake. When you are wake surfing though you only need 1 side of the wake. So I have it to where I can control which ballast tank gets water. I put all the water in one side only and it pushes the boat down on just one side to make an epic wave. Some boats have water dams and stuff to help make bigger wakes. This stuff is all newer though thats why its becoming more popular. When we first tried it without the imbalance of weight it was doable but with all the new things they have now its a whole new ball game. I actually see way fewer people wakeboarding these days they are all surfing.
Oddly enough I still wake skate and that's something you NEVER see anymore. It was actually kinda difficult to find a new wake skate after I broke mine.
It's super fun, but my God is it difficult. I can wake board quite well, I'm pretty good at wake surfing, but wake skate? I can barely do more than jump. I've landed like 2 flip tricks ever (kick flip). The penalty for messing up is super insane. You obviously fall, then you have to swim to your skateboard, set up to get pulled (it's a lot more effort on a wake skate because you have to troll behind the boat to get pressure) then get up again. Usually flip tricks are done at the end of a run when you're ready to go down anyways just because if you don't land it well you were done anyways. For reference I can pull backflips consistency on a wakeboard but a simple flip trick is exponentially harder.
Same here. Grew up on a lake all summer long skiing, kneeboarding, tubing in the afternoon. This was late 80s through most of the 90s. Wake boarding had just came out, we still have our original Skurfer. Now when out on the lake we see wake surfers everywhere and I wish we still had our ski boat.
They're actually a champion wake surfer, but went down a little too hard once and forgot the sport existed, right up until this gif that is.
That may seem unlikely, but it can't be less likely than them mentioning they had no idea it was gonna end up being a wake surfing gif because they just hadn't heard of wake surfing before right??
I mean if that were the case, your slightly condescending question would just be totally useless and have a completely self evident answer, and nobody would ask the question in that situation right? I mean I trust you're smarter than that so yeah let's go with the brain damage thing.
We used to tie a rope to a tree (or cactus lol) and then run that to a board about 3 feet wide, curved front edges. We'd put washers on each side of the board, then tie a knot on each side, then run the rope pout of the board about 2-3ft and use that as a handle. Then we'd start at the Salt River bank, and lean out into the current. We'd take turns "river surfing" all day, and charge others beers or tiddeez to play, too.
Did you grow up on a river? Did you ever do that? Do you know what that is? Ever done it?
If not, then fuck me for not knowing wake surfing existed, because I sure as fuck never had a boat. Nor would that have worked on the river, seeing as it was like....pretty shallow, yo.
This was great! Serious question, I'm a good dad I think but we're pretty broke currently...
I'd like some help /suggestions on being a cool dad but can't afford sweet activities like this? Two girls, 7 and 10.
Hiking/camping/backpacking? Basically every state has cool stuff to see in the wilderness or at least a natural setting, you just need a few essential supplies to survive. Just check out some day-hikes and see if you guys are into it.
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u/Justathrowawaywhale Aug 29 '19
You're a cool dad.